Every child by the age of 6 speaks their mother tongue fluently. It doesn’t matter if they are German, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish or Eskimo. By the age of 6 they haven’t even seen one grammar book. So it doesn’t matter what language you learn. It is only a question of what method you are going to choose.

If you want to learn to speak fluently like a native speaker, you have to choose a method which is very natural like the Story-Telling-Method. Learn more about this method and sign in for my free e-mail lessons:

There are about 105 million native speakers worldwide. About 80 million people speak German as a foreign language thereof approximately 55 million in the Europäischen Union (EU). So German is the most frequently spoken language in the EU.

Even if you don’t plan to move to Germany, there are many companies which do business with German companies because Germany is the world’s leading exporter and German is the most frequently spoken language in the Europäischen Union. So speaking and understanding German will improve your employment opportunities.

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